Enjoy browsing,
but unless otherwise noted, these houses are private property and
closed to the public -- so don't go tromping around uninvited.

Still unaccounted for: according to Lustron
expert Tom Fetters, there is a third Lustron in Nashville NC,
#2127; four more Lustrons in Wilmington; and one in
Carthage.

Want to help in the search for them? Please email
Virginia Faust,
NCMH's chief Lustron archivist.

LUSTRON HOUSES

Carl Strandland, left,
asked President Truman's Reconstruction Finance Committee (RFC) in
the summer of 1946 for $15 million worth of emergency loans to build
small houses for GIs returning from the war effort.
Strandland was not an architect, but his idea that metal
neighborhoods could be prefabricated and swiftly built
persuaded the President's Commission into signing the loan 15 minutes
before its emergency powers expired, and the "Lustron" was born.

To manufacture the ten
tons of steel that went into each two-bedroom Lustron, Strandland
bought a 25-acre factory lot in Columbus OH which had been used
during WWII to build fighter planes. Strandland went back to the
government for two more loans totaling another $25 million. A
few years and only about 3,000 Lustrons later, the company was
repossessed by the RFC in February of 1950 and declared bankruptcy a
number of months later.

There was a three-bedroom
model along with the two-bedroom Westchester. Lustron also
made a smaller Newport model in both two- and three-bedroom
versions.

The largest Lustron
collection in the world was at the Quantico Marine Corps Base in
Virginia, photo below. According to Lustron expert Tom
Fetters, there were 60 units with serial numbers between #200 and
#300. Two of the houses are still preserved on the Base, 23
were demolished in 2006, one was moved, and remaining 34 were demolished in 2007.

Lustrons were given individual serial numbers.
Demonstration House #1 was built in New York City (at 56th street,
now destroyed) and house #2 in Milwaukee WI. The first house
for public sale was #18 in St. Louis MO. Lustrons came on a truck and local builders would put them together.

According to Lustron Corporation documents prepared in late 1949, thirty-nine Lustron Homes were sold within the state of North Carolina.

Year unknown -
412 South Deans Street, Wilson NC.
Sold in 1985 to D. Stuart and Starlette Walson.
Destroyed and replaced with a new
house, bottom photo.
Sold in April 2010 to Scott Benson of Benson
Rentals. Bottom photo by Val Glaser.

1946 - The Hugh G. and
Sarah (Sally) Noffsinger House, approximately
1630 Country Club Road, Wilmington.
Sold in 1975 to Hugh Noffsinger Jr. Sold in 1992 to Frank H. and
Alison F. Bernhart. They gave the house (not the land) to
Historic Wilmington, who gave it away to Alvin O. and Donnalee Frega
in March of 1992. They moved it to
5724 Sidbury Road, Castle Hayne NC, bottom photo. Sold in 2000 to Jack L. and
Elizabeth I. James who still owned it as of 2012. Top photo by Gray Laughridge. Middle
photo of Frega inside the house by Todd Sumlin.

2302 Lawndale, Greensboro NC.
Sold to P. J. and Alice Attayek. Sold in 1990 to Frances
C. Roberson. Sold to Karen L. Moorefield.

1948 -
1404 Virginia
Avenue, Durham.
Built by Eileen Johns, pioneer woman real estate broker and builder, who sold and built Lustron houses in the Durham area from 1948-1951. Sold to Hilda M. Parrish. Sold in 1999 to
Margaret Radzwiller who still owned it as of 2012.

1948 -
The Stern/Callahan House,
2103 Dellwood Drive, Greensboro NC.
Sold in 1949 to R. E. McCoy. Sold in 1953 to John R. Thomas.
Sold to Patrick McDaid. Sold between 1987 and 1991 to Karen L.
Moorefield and Vivian Riddle. Sold in 1993 to
Karen L. Moorefield who still owned it as of 2013. Rental house. Second photo by Nancy Sidelinger.

Deeded to Miriam K. and Max Meyer Jr. Sold in 1977 to Wanda D. and
Philip Sykes. Sold in 1988 back to Miriam K. and Max Meyer Jr. Sold
in 1990 to Carrie V. and Harley James Davis. Sold in 1999 to Thurman
Draughan.

Photos by Dean Jeffrey.

1949 -
201 Brookwood Avenue, Wilmington NC.
Top photos by Heather Wagner Slane. Bottom photo by Hugh Morton. In 1987, a large addition was built in the back. Sold to John Yocom. Sold to the Yocom Family Irrevocable Trust
which still owned it as of 2012.

1949 -

604 North Main Street, Louisburg NC.
Built as a wedding present for the son of the Doctor who owned the
entire block. Has been substantially added on to the rear,
bottom photo. Sold in 2003 to Mollie and Morise Evans.

Around
1949 - The George and Jessie Morris House,
aka Gotno Farm,

3612 Buffaloe Road, Raleigh. Belonged to George Morris until 1988
when it was deeded to Jessie Morris. Transferred to the heirs of Jessie Morris in 1997.
Transferred in 2007 to Jessie's sister Virginia A. Allen, Trustee.
Was a rental house for years. For sale in 2014. Top photo by
Dean Jeffrey, rest by Sally Keeney.
According to their son, George Thomas Arnold (Tom) Morris, Gotno
Farm was very accurate for his father, who was a plastering
contractor who spent
his childhood and young adult years on California and Baja.
Morris recalled a NO TENGO RANCHO sign there and appropriated
the title for his property in Raleigh.

1949 - The Edward T. and Betty Bass house,
104 North Hilliard Street, Nashville
NC. Sold around 1958 to Earl Waters. Sold in 2001
to Jonathan Boulden who still owned it as of 2012.

1949 - #1849, The J. Clarence and Irene Beal House,
107 South Collins Street, Nashville NC. Three-bedroom unit. Sold in 2000. Sold in 2005 to Nashville United Methodist Church, right next door.
Photos by Wallace Abernethy. It was slated for demolition in April 2011 for church expansion. Gene Hammond bought it later in 2011, disassembled it, and moved it to Stoneville NC where as of early 2012 it was in storage.

1949 -
The Henry B. and Louise M. Keir House,
2120 Sprunt Avenue, Durham. Built by Eileen Johns,
one of the first women brokers and builders who sold and built Lustron houses from 1948-1951. Addition in 1957, plus a carport. Sold in 2000 to
Harvey S. and Olivera Finn. Sold in 2009 to
Deborah Chay, who
removed the
carport and completely renovated the addition. Video on the renovation. Bottom
three photos by Tad Davis.

1949 - #1974, The Colonel Rambeau House,
2421 Perkins Road, Durham. Built by Eileen Johns, pioneer woman real estate broker and builder, who sold and built Lustron houses in the Durham area from 1948-1951.
Added a garage. Sold to the Mitchells. Sold in 1957 to
Charles Albert (Al) Hilliard who added the back room and bath and
then joined it to the garage. According to Hilliard, "I had it
converted to gas heat and made a number of changes. I also devised a
method for air conditioning and put it in. The house has no load
bearing walls and the rooms can be changed. There is a panel on the
far left end of the house that can be removed and the entire house
taken down piece by piece. The house was ahead of it's time." Sold in
1977 to Sarah Titus. Added on a fireplace. Sold in 1993 to
Herbert F. and Jane Crovitz. Sold in 1999 to Jean P. Berry and Jean T. Berry
who still owned it as of 2012.

1949 -
The Hubert and Laura Neville House,
109 Stephens Street, Chapel Hill.
Sold in 1949 to Lonas A. and Elizabeth R. Williams. Sold in
1967 to Robert D. and Phyllis Verhalen. Sold in 1973 to
Elizabeth Beleny. Sold in 1984 to Daniel Sobotka. Sold in
1988 to the Clark C. Burritt family. Sold in 1994 to
Julie Bond-Meers who still owns it as of 2014. First photo by Matt Jones. Second photo by Jay Fulkerson.

,
70 Hampden Road, Asheville.
Two-bedroom unit. Sold 1955
to Thomas E. Whitmire a/k/a Edmund T. Whitmire. Deeded 1964 to Jean
Webster Whitmire and Edmund T. Whitmire. Sold 1972 to Sylvia B. and
Edward Charles Thielecke. Sold 1974 to Elenora B. and John R.
Newton. Sold 1982 to Patricia Girard and Andrew Campbell. Sold 1985
to Tommie Lynn Carter. Sold 2012 to Equity Trust Company. For
sale in 2013. Sold in 2014 to Kathleen Altork and Mark K.
Fauts.

1949 - #1219,

The
Rossie Marshall Williamson House,
208 East Fifth Street, Tabor City NC.
Transferred in 2006 to the Annabelle G. Williamson Trust. Sold by
the Estate in 2008 to G.T. Burroughs Inc.

1949 -

The J. Wyatt Womack House, 2202 Richardson
Drive, Reidsville NC. Sold by the Womack Estate in 1990 to James L.
Thompson Jr. Sold in 1993 to Malinda T. Murray, later married to
Tony Lynn Pendergraph. Deeded in 2013 to Malinda T.
Pendergraph.

Around 1950 -
1811 Glendale Avenue, Durham.
Built by Eileen Johns, pioneer woman real estate broker who sold and built Lustron houses in the Durham area from 1948-1951. Owned at one time by the Honeycutts. This is a three-bedroom
unit. Sold to Nathan Forrest Daniels, Trustee. As of 2012
owned by Steven Michael Ramarge.

Around 1950
-
The Mallory Pittman House,
400 North Carolina Avenue NW, Wilson NC.
Built as a rental property. Sold in 1978 to Katherine Russell Barnes. Sold in 2005 to SRT Investments.
Sold in 2012 to Jense and Herbert H. Harris. Photos by Val Glaser.

1950 - The Ralph Maxwell House,

607 West Pope Street, Dunn NC. Sold to Russell and Sallie Thomas. Transferred in 2002 to their LLC, TY Properties LLC. Now a rental house.

617 Myers, Greensboro NC. They were the only residents of the Lustron, which was sold and destroyed in 2000 with a new home shown above built on the site in 2001.

1950 - The Fred and Hazel M. Crouch House,

1733 Brooks Avenue, Raleigh. Reported incorrectly on other Lustron websites as 1731 Brooks. Sold in 1965 to Edith Hobgood. Sold to Oliver and Mildred Hobgood. Sold in 1977 to Robert L. Henline, Jr. Sold to 1978 Frances Wilson. Given to her heirs in 1994. Sold in 1994 to Walter James Miller. Destroyed in Hurricane Fran. Sold to Creech Construction in 1999, who built a new house, bottom photo.

1950 -
606 Pinecrest, Carthage NC.
Has a wood addition, carport and pool. Went on the market May 2009.

425 Credle Street, Pittsboro NC. Sold to George Wallace Poole. Sold in 1994 to Patricia Randorf.

Around 1950 - The Patrick Barnes Sr. House,

274
McCoy Road, Apex NC. The site was formerly called Bells NC.
Barnes' wife's family, the Bells, had owned
the 250+ acres of land since the 1700's. In the 1970's, the
government took 2/3 of the land through eminent domain at $651/acre
for Jordan Lake.

Transferred in 1958 to his son

Patrick Barnes Jr. Sometime after 1991, when the house was
documented as standing by local historians, Barnes bulldozed a pit
next to the Lustron, destroyed it, and buried it

. It is
likely still there underground.

1950 - #659,

310 Oakdale Street, Gastonia NC.
Several owners. Sold in 1988 to Roger E. Nix. Sold in
1997 to Anthony and Marietta Kithcart. Sold in 2005 to Felisha
N. Jones. Went into foreclosure. Sold in 2008 to Cathy H. Allen. Renovated, was for sale 2009-2011.

1950 - The Paul Edwin Pickett House,
2821 Van Dyke, Raleigh. Sold
in 1965 to RW and Betty Jean Strobel. Sold in 1978 to Dennis
Ducker. Sold in 1992 to Rachel Pattishall. Destroyed in
1997 hurricane. Replaced by new house in 1998, bottom photo.

1950 - The J. Lewis and Evelyn Allison House,
409 Yarmouth, Raleigh.
Sold to the Allisons by the Jones-Whitehead Homes of Wilson NC, H. G.
Whitehead (President). Sold in 1954 to Cyrus and Carolyn King.
Sold in 2005 to Adam Lichtin. Sold later in 2005 to Russell
Builders. Sold later in 2005 to James Betts.
The Lustron was destroyed and replaced with a new house, bottom photo, in 2006.

1950 - #2417,

1716 Trent Boulevard, New Bern NC. Sold to Ted Gerard and Felicia Vallee. Suffered extensive hurricane damage from a tree falling on it. As of 2011, the side was still covered with a tarp.

1950 - #1483,

210 Cromwell, Tarboro NC. Photo by
Lawrence Auld. Sold to Edward Marrow. Sold in 2010.

1950 - #2144,
603 West Street,
renumbered from the original 707 West Street, Pittsboro NC.
Sold in 1996 to Hazel Crissman McCollum. Sold to Susan K. McCollum, John McCollum II, Judith McCollum Collins, and CD Collins. Sold in 2011 to Shannon and Erica Plummer.
Deteriorated, has been vandalized, and is vacant. For sale in
2014. Added to the
NCMH Endangered List on 2014. Bottom photo by Leilani Carter.

1951 - The Bruce and Pauline Porter House,

1700 Banbury, Raleigh. Sold in 1977 to Frank and Francoise Hansberger III. Sold in 1978 to Michael H. Palmer. Destroyed 1998 for a new house, bottom
photo.

1952 - #2208,

1906 Glendale, Durham.
Built by Eileen Johns, pioneer woman real estate broker and builder, who sold and built Lustron houses in the Durham area from 1948-1951.
Sold to Hazel Parrish. Sold to Yance T. Parrish
who still owned it as of 2012.

Year unknown -

1204 Broad Street, Durham.
Various Lustron registries put one at this location, but there's a 1920 house there, so this information is incorrect. The
2011 photo of 1204 Broad at LustronConnection.com is actually 2120 Sprunt Street in Durham.

1952 - The Ashby and Gladys Rice House,

406 Yarmouth, Raleigh. Sold in
1969 to Kurt and Maren Leonard. Sold in 1974 to John and Sandra
Irving who still owned it as of 2012. Top photo from 1995. Added a
two-story addition
with garage and guest house.

1952 -

175 Page Road, Pinehurst NC. Sold to Canadian golfer Elizabeth Sihler around 1956 as a vacation house. Transferred to daughter Evelyn and husband John Deacon in the late 1990's.

1953 - The Federico G. Gil House,

5 Mount Bolus Road, Chapel Hill. Rebuilt with a two-story addition on the side. Sold in 1996 to Edgardo R. Garcia. Now a rental house. Bottom photo by Jay Fulkerson.

1950 - The
Edward T. and Alta Stringham House,
7 Mount Bolus Road, Chapel Hill. Jim
Webb designed an
addition in
1950, which was built. Sold in 1996 to James and Edith McEntyre.
Landscape architect David Swanson bought and disassembled the Lustron with assistance from
Charlie Kahn in June 1997. A new house was later built on the lot.

About five
years later Swanson sold the Lustron, as parts, to Gary Ace and Luna Mountainsea. As of 2012 it was still in storage and available for sale.

Year unknown -
900 Sunset, Rocky Mount NC. Sold in 1976 to Robert D. White who destroyed it for a medical office building, above. Sold in 1979 to Hazelbelle P. White. Sold in 1988 to William R. and Sarah F. and Jones. Sold in 2008 to Lake North LLC. Photo above is as of May 2010.

-
1821 Ebert Street,
Winston-Salem NC. Moved
here from another location in 1955.Sold in 2006 to Jean and Elizabeth Smith.

Year unknown - The Ray McDonald House,
305 South Page Street, Southern Pines NC. Photo by Carolyn Morton.
Year unknown -
15710 Palmer Road, Marston NC. Former Carrboro
Mayor Robert Drakeford's family moved it from the
McCain prison on Hwy 211 around 1996.

Years unknown - Eight Lustrons on Lustron Drive, located at the intersection of Hwy 211 (Aberdeen Road) and Old NC 211 in McCain NC. They were built for employees of the nearby McCain
Tuberculosis Sanatorium (designed by

Carter Williams). When that facility closed, the building was
converted to a prison
facility, McCain
Correctional Hospital, which closed
in April 2010. Lustron Drive is now closed and gated (photo above).

According to Barbara and Adrian Allred who lived in the wooden house and worked at McCain,
Lustron Drive had one wooden house on the right corner and then the eight Lustron houses along the the same side of the street. There were no other houses on the street. The Lustrons were situated 30 to 40 feet apart and were yellow and blue with grey interiors. Most were two bedroom. One was numbered 55 and was rented during 1975 by Vijaykumar Mehta. We do not know the other numbers.

In the early 1980's, all the homes were sold. None were destroyed at that time. Barbara Allred heard that one went to the NC coast. Three were bought

by D. P. Black of Aberdeen who put them disassembled into storage. As of early 2012, he still had them.

According to Black, this house was moved from McCain to its location
at approximately
255 Rowe Avenue, Aberdeen NC.